These families have long pushed to remember the Mexican repatriation. It’s more urgent than ever, they say.

https://www.latimes.com/delos/story/2025-02-06/these-families-have-long-pushed-to-remember-the-mexican-repatriation

Citizens Facing Deportation Isn’t New. Here’s What Happened When the U.S. Removed Mexican-Americans in the 1930s

https://time.com/5638586/us-citizens-deportation-raids/

Mexican and Mexican-American Unconstitutional Removal of 1930s Is Subject of Film Screening

Oct. 5, 2018

M Guadalupe Espinoza and Christine Valenciana
M. Guadalupe Espinoza, lecturer in Elementary and Bilingual Education, and Christine Valenciana, associate professor emeritus of Elementary and Bilingual Education, will present research on the 1930s Mass Unconstitutional Removal of Mexicans and Mexican Americans.

A multimedia, interactive session about the mass deportation of Mexicans and Mexican Americans during the 1930s will be held Monday, Oct. 15, from 6-9 p.m. in the Pollak Library’s Rotary Club of Fullerton Room 130.

The free, public event, “The Unconstitutional Deportation of Mexicans and Mexican Americans in the 1930s,” will offer an overview of research, advocacy and legislation related to the Great Depression expulsion and feature a film screening of Vicente Serrano’s documentary “A Forgotten Injustice.”

Presenters include Christine Valenciana, associate professor emeritus of elementary and bilingual education, and M. Guadalupe Espinoza, lecturer in elementary and bilingual education. Both educators, whose parents were among those deported during the 1930s, have conducted extensive research related to the experience. Valenciana’s oral history interviews are housed in Cal State Fullerton’s Lawrence de Graaf Center for Oral and Public History.

The event is sponsored by CSUF’s Associated Students Inc., Chicano/Latino Faculty and Staff Association, D.R.E.A.M. Co-op, Lambda Theta Phi Latin Fraternity Inc. and Latinx Student Psychological Association, as well as the Mexican American Cultural and Heritage Center of Orange County.

Smithsonian Learning Lab: Learning about the Unconstitutional Deportation of American Citizens in the 1930s through an Individual’s Experience: Emilia Castañeda

https://learninglab.si.edu/collections/learning-about-the-unconstitutional-deportation-of-american-citizens-in-the-1930s-through-an-individual-s-experience-emilia-castaneda/DGws3nP5CBMwekL8#r/